Samuel Alan Massell Jr. (August 26, 1927 – March 13, 2022) was an American businessman and politician who served from 1970 to 1974 as the 53rd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.

He graduated from Druid Hills High School at age 16 and enrolled at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.

[2] A lifelong Atlanta resident, Massell has had successful careers in real estate brokerage, elected office, tourism, and association management.

[3] For twenty years, Massell was a realtor, having become vice president of the Allan-Grayson Realty Company, then one of the largest commercial brokerage firms in Atlanta.

He served twenty-two years in elected office, first as a city councilman in the town of Mountain Park, where he owned a lakehouse.

[5][6][7] After leaving full-time public service, Massell entered the tourism business in Buckhead in the Atlanta metro area.

Massell later managed a nonprofit civic organization as founding president of the Buckhead Coalition, an association of business executives on the north side of Atlanta.